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- Golden Globes 2025 - Official Thread - the Data Lounge
Ricky Gervais will not be hosting the 2025 Golden Globes, but he did recently post on X some of the jokes he would’ve made had he been emceeing the awards ceremony
- Christmas shopping in 1987 - the Data Lounge
Sunvalley in Concord, CA My mother worked at the Macy's there from the day it opened by Anonymous: reply 31:
- The suburb thread. Name a suburb, and describe it in a sentence.
Ranui, Auckland, New Zealand Rough round the edges, but also in the middle as well, lots of social housing, the place you'd go to buy meth, a pitbull, or a used (up) car at the very bottom end of the market, many homes here will have at least a couple in various states of decay on the front "lawn" guarded by said pitbull which may be chained up, or not as the case may be
- Next nationwide Hands Off protest planned for APRIL 19TH!
April 19 is the anniversary of the start of the American Revolution (250 years ago ) It's also the day before the 90 day deadline Trump set in his January EO for a study to be completed on what he declared to be an emergency at the southern border
- Former Supreme Court Justice David Souter Dead at 85 - the Data Lounge
[quote] There are no immediate survivors Justice Souter’s father died in 1976 His mother, with whom he shared a home for years and whom he later visited regularly at her retirement home in Concord, lived long enough to see her only child reach the heights of the legal profession She died in 1995 at the age of 87 So who gets his stuff?
- Datalounges model for Momma (and perhaps her mussy): Rosemary Clooney
Those last years of Clooney's Concord "jazz" albums, with only ten or so songs each on them and only 30 minutes long, where she sings 32 bars of an old standard and then the band plays for four minutes and she comes in for the tag at the end "On the Road Again" is the last good one
- What musicals do kids do in high school these days? - the Data Lounge
Of course high schools would be doing more recent musicals in 2025 Many of the songs for many of the great old shows my high school did back in the 80s ("The Music Man," "Guys and Dolls," and "Carnival") absolutely did not date (well, most of the songs in "Carnival" dated), but the books seemed moldy even then
- Which famous men have you met or seen in person? - the Data Lounge
Leo DiCaprio (super nice, huge entourage - including Lukas Haas), Adam Sandler (great dad), Conan O'Brien (self-deprecating - so not so different), Alec Baldwin (very sweet to his "fat pig" daughter), Harrison Ford (exactly how you'd think), Richard Benjaman (tiny feet), George Segal (even tinier feet), Eric McCormack (tries too hard), Larry King (surprisingly coherent), Patton Oswalt (exactly
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